I use tar, gzip and plink (putty backend). tar cf - directory | gzip -c | pink -so me -options here I have not gotten the z flag to work with windows tar. Brock On 6/23/05, greg wm <tclug at greatlakedata.com> wrote: > hi folks, > > i'd like to setup backup of my win2000 server onto my linux server. if > i were to simply transfer via samba, the various ntfs attributes would > be omitted when writing on the ext3 filesystem, so, are there any > programs, preferably open source, that handle this? > > tia, > greg > > Greg Whitley Mott > IT Coordinator > NonviolentPeaceforce.org > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >